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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Four UP Dalits, missing for a week, found murdered

Four UP Dalits, missing for a week, found murdered

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published Published on May 9, 2013   modified Modified on May 9, 2013
-The Indian Express


Lucknow: Four Dalit farmers, who were missing since April 30, were found murdered in Asmauli police station area of Sambhal district on Wednesday. The bodies were found buried in two trenches in a field.

The bodies bore injury marks caused by sticks. The postmortem report is awaited to ascertain the exact reason of death, said Moradabad Range DIG Amrendra Kumar Sengar.

The victims were identified as Vijay Singh (43), his brothers Suraj (35) and Jasveer (30) and their neighbour Manoj (29) - residents of Gammanpura village in Moradabad district bordering Sambhal.

The Moradabad police arrested three persons, including a history-sheeter, Anees, of Sambhal district. The police said that bodies were recovered following the interrogation of Anees, who is the prime accused in the case. Others arrested in the case include Afsar and Vijay Singh Jatav. Jatav was released from jail in a criminal case on April 28. The police said that a hunt is on to trace four other associates of Anees who were involved in the crime.

On Wednesday morning, the victims' family members and locals blocked the Moradabad-Delhi highway for more than eight hours demanding compensation. The situation came under control after senior officials reached the spot and conveyed the state government's decision to give ex-gratia of Rs 13 lakh to the kin of each of the deceased.

Earlier, on Monday, a three-member team of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes visited the families of the victims, and held meeting with the police and administrative officials of Moradabad and Sambhal. On Wednesday, Commission's chairman P L Punia met the families of the victims.

The police said that the murders were a fallout of an incident that took place on April 17 at Gammanpura where the victims and other locals had beaten up Anees after he misbehaved with a 35-year-old widow. Sengar said that Anees, who has 17 criminal cases against him, had planned to kill Hari Singh Saini of Gamanpurva who had led the group that assaulted him. On April 30, Anees was told by Jatav, a resident of same village, that Saini would come to his field in the night. "When they attacked the victims they could not find Saini among them, but later decided to kill the four Dalit farmers fearing that their identity would be disclosed," added Sengar.

Station Officer, Pakwada police station, D P Pundheer said that Anees confessed to the crime during questioning and said that he, along with six others, had murdered the four farmers to avenge the attack on him. Anees told the police that on April 30, he, along with his associates, attacked the farmers with sticks and later tied their hands with ropes. At gunpoint, they took them to his village, Talwarpur, which is four km from Gammanpura. The accused thrashed the victims and later strangled them to death.

Among the victims, Vijay has six children, the youngest being seven-year-old. Sanjay has a three-year-old boy; Jasveer has three children, the youngest is two-year-old. Manoj has four children, the youngest is a year old.

Manoj's brother Vinod said, "Anees was regular visitor to the village. He used to come to the house of the widow. On April 17, he misbehaved with locals in a drunken state and was beaten up."

After the four farmers went missing, an FIR was lodged at the Pakwada police station by Vijay's son Dharmpal suspecting the role of Anees in their kidnapping. The villagers had staged a sit-in outside the office of the District Magistrate, Moradabad, when the police did not initiate any action.


The Indian Express, 9 May, 2013, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/four-up-dalits-missing-for-a-week-found-murdered/1113411/


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